Honestly for me, it's just that it's damn useful. It's not especially new and shiny and hip, but it's easy to think in and easy to reason about. OCaml is a nice

Honestly for me, it's just that it's damn useful. It's not especially new and shiny and hip, but it's easy to think in and easy to reason about. OCaml is a nice tool for writing software. That's about it. It's pretty simple functional programming that can switch to imperative and object-oriented programming where appropriate.